Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to bring together the key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds, and assess the state of play of the EU as an international security actor. The series explores the EU, and its member states, security policy and practices in a changing global and regional context. While the focus is on the politico-military dimension, security is put in the context of the holistic approach advocated by the EU.
Transatlantic Relations after the Russian-Ukrainian War: A Neo-realist Approach
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Cladi
June 30, 2025
This book provides a neorealist explanation of transatlantic relations and explores key issues at the forefront of the relationship between the US and its European allies in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. Transatlantic relations, involving the relationship between the United States and its ...
Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy: Indispensable or Insufferable?
1st Edition
By Linde Desmaele
April 14, 2025
This book looks at the evolution of the role of Europe in US grand strategy, and unpacks how US administrations have instrumentalized this relationship in pursuit of extra-European objectives. The work considers geopolitical pressures in conjunction with leaders’ strategic ideas to provide an ...
French-German Military Cooperation and European Defence: From Driving Engine to Divergence of Interests?
1st Edition
By Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
January 29, 2025
This book examines the role of French-German cooperation within European military cooperation and European defence, and particularly the CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy). The work explores whether Franco-German bilateral leadership is still relevant in European defence and military ...
European Strategic Autonomy and Small States' Security: In the Shadow of Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Giedrius Česnakas, Justinas Juozaitis
October 04, 2024
This book analyses whether the EU’s drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member states to advance their security interests. The volume presents small states’ perceptions of European strategic autonomy, highlighting their ...
EU Missions and Peacebuilding: Building Peace through the Common Security and Defence Policy
1st Edition
By Vladimir Kmec
September 25, 2023
This book analyses the European Union’s (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EU’s role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the ...
Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member-States Matter
1st Edition
By Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters
September 25, 2023
This book examines the development of cooperation between the EU and NATO, two key non-state actors in the European security architecture. The work examines the relationship between the EU and NATO by focusing on the perspective of member states. Highlighting the relevance of member states’ role in...
Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition: Coping with an Unstable Triangle
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Biba, Reinhard Wolf
May 31, 2023
This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry. The volume explores the contemporary relationship and ongoing dynamics between three of the most powerful players in today’s international relations - the USA, China and Europe. It claims that ...
The EU Security Continuum: Blurring Internal and External Security
1st Edition
By Alistair J.K. Shepherd
May 31, 2023
This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor. The EU claims that ‘internal and external security are inseparable’ and requires a more integrated approach. This book ...
The Making of European Security Policy: Between Institutional Dynamics and Global Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Haar, Thomas Christiansen, Sabina Lange, Sophie Vanhoonacker
January 09, 2023
This volume addresses how and in what capacity the European Union and its member states are able to respond to fundamental shifts occurring in global politics and remain relevant for the future. The changing nature of the international system is subject to considerable contestation among scholars,...
European Defence Decision-Making: Dilemmas of Collaborative Arms Procurement
1st Edition
By Antonio Calcara
September 30, 2021
This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to ...
Defence Industrial Cooperation in the European Union: The State, the Firm and Europe
1st Edition
By Daniel Fiott
December 18, 2020
This book provides an empirical understanding of how EU-level defence industrial cooperation functions in practice.Using the Liberal Intergovernmental theoretical model, the book argues that while national economic preferences are an essential factor of government interests they only explain part ...
European Union Military Operations: A Collective Action Perspective
1st Edition
By Niklas I. M. Nováky
August 14, 2020
This book offers an in-depth study on the deployment of military operations in the framework of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP). While existing studies of the subject are either descriptive or focused on a single level of analysis, this book incorporates factors ...